Year 1/2

Welcome to 1 Ivy!

Dream Big, Dare to Fail

Welcome to the Class Page for Ivy.

We hope that you find the information on this page useful. If you have any further questions please speak to a member of the Year 1 Team

Our Classes are

1/2 Ivy

1/2 Beech

1/2 Cherry

Here you will find out what we will be learning each half term, the staff, useful dates and links to support learning at home.

Staff

The class teacher in Ivy is: The class teacher in Beech is: The class teacher in Cherry is:

Miss Hope Mrs Welsh Miss Padgett

We also having the following people covering in the classes across the week:

Mrs Saloo Miss Barker-Milner

Important Information

Ivy PE days: Monday and Friday

Beech PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday

Cherry PE days: Wednesday and Thursday

On these days, children can come to school in their PE kits for the whole day.

Please ensure your children has the following PE kit -
- Plain white T- shirt or polo shirt

- Plain black shorts (on warm days)

- Plain black track-suit bottoms (on colder days)

- Trainers or pumps.

White PE T-shirts with the Orchard Logo are available to order from: https://www.sptuniforms.co.uk/product-category/orchard-primary-academy/

Ivy's library day is: Thursday

Beech's library day is: Thursday

Cherry's library day is: Friday

This half term we will be learning...

Maths

In Maths this half-term, we will be learning about the place value of numbers from 10 - 100. We will be learning about the composition of these numbers, learning to count on and back from these numbers and to order and compare numbers up to 100.

Writing

In Writing this half-term, we will be writing instructions. We will be using the book The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord to help us write our own set of instructions. We will then be using the non-fiction book Explorers to help us write biographies of explorers.

Science

This half-term, we will be learning about plants in Science.

🌱 Plants

This topic encourages children to get hands-on with nature, planting seeds and watching them grow, while learning how to identify and describe different types of plants.

Children will explore the world of plants by:

Learning to name common garden and wild plants, including trees.
Understanding the basic parts of plants like leaves, flowers, roots, and stems.
Observing how plants grow and change through the seasons.
Using tools like magnifying glasses to look closely at plants and record changes such as leaves falling or flowers blooming.

Alongside Plants, we will be exploring how the season changes from Summer to Autumn this half-term.

🌦️ Seasonal Changes

This topic helps children connect with the natural world by noticing seasonal patterns and weather changes, encouraging curiosity about the environment around them.

Children will observe and describe:

How the seasons change throughout the year.
Different types of weather in each season.
How the length of daylight changes over time.

Key curriculum information:

Phonics

We use a teaching programme called Read Write Inc. (RWI) to teach our children to read and write. In RWI lessons, the children are taught new sounds and these progress from set 1 - 3. Children will continue to learn set 2 sounds, consolidate set 1 sounds and progress onto set 3 sounds.

Children learn to read words by sound-blending using a frog called Fred. Fred says the sounds and children help him blend the sounds to read each word. Children also learn to read red words (common exception words) on sight. Red words are words that cannot be segmented or blended.